Autobiographical Jews

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Examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions the very nature of autobiographical writing and its relationship to what we normally designate as truth, Michael Stanislawski analyzes a small number of autobiographies written by Jews.Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning Michael Stanislawski ... However fashionable
and oft repeated, the notion that autobiographical narrative, philosophical
analysis, or poetry were impossible aafter Auschwitza was never philosophically
serious, anbsp;...

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Autobiographical Jews

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Michael Stanislawski

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University of Washington Press - 2012-09-01

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